Identity Defender
Identity Patrol has been designed to protect your computer from any type of attempt to change your computer settings without your knowledge. Browser Hijacking has become a major problem on the web and involves a rogue software script that changes your home page and other browser settings.
Identity Defender prevents any attempt from a hijacker to take control of your computer. To access your Identity Defender settings, click the ID Defender button on the left hand side menu.
This will bring up the Identity Defender control panel that will look like this screen shot below.
Setting Your Home Page
Identity Patrol will automatically scan for your default home settings. If you want to change your settings to another address besides your defaul, you will need to click the CHANGE RESTORE SETTINGS TO A NEW URL to set your own personal preference. ( shown in screen shot below )
If there is any attempt to change your home page settings by another program, it not only will in most cases prevent the attack, but it will ensure that the proper settings are restored.
If the screen shot above, you can see the current home page settings for the sample system.
Using the Alerts Feature ( Shown Below )
Identity Patrol will protect your system from attempts to change your settings in your system memory files, as well as any suspected hijack attempts. It will also alert you if an attempt is made to download with out your knowledge any suspicious Active X components, and will alert you to any programs that are attempting to install themselves or access your computer when you turn it on or reboot it. We recommend that you leave all of these four boxes checked.
Browser Hijacker Restoration
In the case of a rogue program hijacks your broswer, Identity Patrol will automatically restore all of your settings to where you want them. The below screen shot shows how Identity Patrol detects your current URL settings for programs such as your start page, your home page, search settings and error pages.
If you need to restore your settings in the aftermath of a browser hijacker attempt, you can do so by clicking the RESTORE button.
